October 18 – October 24
The Week in Indiana History
1920   Over 13,000 Indiana teachers were in Indianapolis for their annual convention. They met in five different venues in the city: Tomlinson Hall, Caleb Mills Hall, the Masonic Temple, the Claypool Hotel, and the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Guest speakers included former United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
1987   Under a heavy cloud cover, an Air Force Corsair jet crashed into the Ramada Inn near the Indianapolis airport. The plane was en route to Tinker Air Base in Oklahoma when the engine flamed out. The pilot was able to eject, but 10 people in the hotel were killed.
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Hoosier Quote of the Week |
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“We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.”
– – -Â Mother Theodore Guerin (1798 – 1856)
Did You Know?
   At age 17, Thomas Edison came to Indianapolis to work as a telegraph operator at the old Union Station. He had already had a stint in Fort Wayne. At the time, Western Union was paying its telegraphers a salary of $75 a month, not bad for 1864 when skilled craftsmen were making about $50 a month. It is thought that the young Edison boarded in a home at the southeast corner of Illinois and Market Streets. While in the Hoosier capital, he developed what might have been his first true invention. It was a combination device that would record a telegraph message on a paper tape and then play it back at a slower speed to make the message easier to transcribe.  Alas, the young inventor spent too much time inventing and too little time at the telegraph key. He was fired after a few months, and he moved on to another telegraph job in Cincinnati.
ANSWERS: 1. C   2. D   3. A  4. E   5. B
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